The iPhone Book Moves Onward
Aug. 18th, 2008 09:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aLast Thursday I hit my latest milestone on the iPhone book that Christopher & I are writing. That was the date to turn in chapters 1-15 of the book, which covers three-quarters of the total chapters. I wrote a bit last week of the Murphy-esque circumstances that surrounded it, but it turned out OK thanks to the fact that I'd been running ahead before my schedule ground to a halt.
That was the last of the web-development sections (which included two new chapters that we decided to write, one on the WebKit and one on Dashcode). Now I'm back to SDK, which means building and programming in Xcode.
We're really pushed in the book on the idea of always using the right tool (web or SDK) to do your programming, and I hope people will see the sense of that. But, similarly, I can see how people can be thrown off by moving back and forth. I started in on preferences and files today, and I recognize that Objective-C programming is quite different from the JavaScript that I was doing the week before last.
In some ways, though, it's not as bad a difference as moving from Perl to PHP when doing web development, because Objective-C and JavaScript are different enough that you don't mistakenly get your syntax confused, unlike with Perl and PHP where I sometimes used the wrong syntax.
In any case, I'm happy to get back to the SDK, because it means that I'm on the solid path to finishing the last part of the book (though I only get to stay here for a week, before I do another pass on the first parts of the book, following comments).
That was the last of the web-development sections (which included two new chapters that we decided to write, one on the WebKit and one on Dashcode). Now I'm back to SDK, which means building and programming in Xcode.
We're really pushed in the book on the idea of always using the right tool (web or SDK) to do your programming, and I hope people will see the sense of that. But, similarly, I can see how people can be thrown off by moving back and forth. I started in on preferences and files today, and I recognize that Objective-C programming is quite different from the JavaScript that I was doing the week before last.
In some ways, though, it's not as bad a difference as moving from Perl to PHP when doing web development, because Objective-C and JavaScript are different enough that you don't mistakenly get your syntax confused, unlike with Perl and PHP where I sometimes used the wrong syntax.
In any case, I'm happy to get back to the SDK, because it means that I'm on the solid path to finishing the last part of the book (though I only get to stay here for a week, before I do another pass on the first parts of the book, following comments).